Military signaling apparatus.



B. R. DIETZ.

MILITARY SIGNALING APPARATUS.

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Mtented Apr. 13, 19115.

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BERNARD RUSSEL DIETZ, OF CANTERBURY, ENGLAND.

MILITARY SIGNALING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 13, T9155.

Original application filed April 17, 1908, Serial No. 427,7 1-3. Dividedand this application filed. December To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, BERNARD RUssnL Din'rz, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at St: Nons, Canterbury, in the county of Kent,England, have invented certain new and useful Improved MilitarySignaling Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the apparatus described in mycopen'ding application Serial No. @1743, of which this is a division,and has for its object to adapt the same for use in indicating positionsor the whereabouts of parties in connection with military and otheroperations in the dark or at night; the object being to render thepositions observable by, say, the oilicer commanding, but to prevent thesame being ascertained by the opposing force or parties. The apparatusis also serviceable as a means of signaling or communicating.

According to my invention it is desirable to have an illuminating devicewhich the officer may conveniently carry and by means of a glow lamp, orother illuminating means such as a slow match, tinder or the likeindicate to his men and similarly his general or commanding ofiicertheir position or whereabouts while concealing the same from the enemy.At the same time the device may serve in leading the men. For thispurpose the apparatus may comprise a disk or disk like device adaptedfor being fitted into a suitable holder and formed or provided with areceptacle for an illuminant such as above referred to or which maycomprise a lamp of the acetylene or other type and of a portablecharacter.

In order that the said invention may be clearly understood and readilycarried into effect, I will proceed to describe the same with referenceto the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 being vertical section ofthe device. Fig. 2 a view also in section of a portion of the devicedrawn to a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a view in section illustrating analternative mode of effecting the raising of the wick, slow match ortinder. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the device. Fig. 5 is a sideelevation of the form of the device shown in Fig. i; and Fig. 6 is aview in elevation of the form of the device illustrated in Fig. 4t andshowing more clearly the means whereby the light is obscured.

Serial No. 469,618.

Referring to the form of apparatus illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, a isa disk which may be black. In the center of the disk or in any othersuitable siuation thereon is' tube It and into a tubular receptacle 7cadapted for being-used as a handle or for being secured to the diskdevice, an attaching means of any suitable or appropriate form beingemployed for effecting the necessary connection of the parts. The wick2' may be raised by means of star wheels 2" z" operated by a milledturning head i situated upon a spindle carried laterally through theeasing is." or the star wheels z" 2" may be actuated by a milled head 2'mounted on a spindle 2' arranged parallel with the casing 70 andprovided with a worm i for operating the gear wheels 71 i pertaining tothe star wheels 1" i (Fig. 4). The end of the handle or casing in remotefrom the disk a may be closed by a cap is which may be socured to thecasing 71; by a bayonet slot or other fastening. By means of the milledturning head t the raising of the wick may be readily accomplished whilethe apparatus is held in one hand.

The arrangement illustrated in Fig. 5 comprises a circular frame ahaving a filling a constituting a disk. The front of the disk isfurnished with a segment I) hinged to the main portion a at Z) Z) oralong the line of Junction with the said main portion a. The

disk at, b is mounted on a handle or support 0 which may be as shown oftubular form or the handle may be telescopic as will be readilyunderstood. The spindle b may be bent at b to allow the casing e andlens to be placed in the center of the disk. The bent portion Z2 may beprovided with a piece of pliable material such as chamois leather, whichwould accommodate itself as the movable part of the disk is operatedbackward and forward for signaling purposes; the aforesaid pliablematerial being adaptedto cover the light. The match or wick 2' may becoiled in the handle 0 as before described. The spindle b may terminatein a part (Z and an actuating piece 03. The hinged segment I) isoperated by means of the spindle d and finger piece 03 so as to exposeand obscure the light.

It Will be obvious that the herein described apparatus may be used incommunicating or signaling somewhat after the manner of the flagsordinarily employed or the said apparatus may be adapted to a code.

What I claim and desire to secure by Let ters Patent of the UnitedStates is 1, A portable signaling apparatus com prising an opaquedisk-like device, a handle secured to and projecting from the peripheryof the disk and in the plane of the same, a light giving device fittedcentrally in one face of the said disk, a pivotally mounted segmenton'the same face of the disk, and means carried by the said handle forturning the said segment on its pivot to expose and obscure said lightgiving device.

2. In a portable light signaling apparatus, the combinationof animperforate disk,

a source of light arranged centrally of said disk, a diametricallyarranged spindle rotatably mounted on said disk on the side thereofadjacent the source of light, a segment arranged on said spindle andcorre sponding in dimensions to one half of the imperforate disk, acentral loop on said spindle extending over the source of light, aflexible pocket secured to said loop and to the imperforate disk on oneside of said spindle, a finger piece on said spindle for turning thesegment so that the flexible pocket may cover the source of light, and ahandle secured to the said device and proj ecting from the same in theplane thereof.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

BERNARD RUSSEL DIETZ.

Vitnesses LEWIS Momus IDDINGS, A. ABADEE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressingrthe Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, 1). 0.

